SYRIA, FOURTH QUARTER 2019: Update on Incidents According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) Compiled by ACCORD, 23 June 2020
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SYRIA, FOURTH QUARTER 2019: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 23 June 2020 Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities National borders: GADM, November 2015a; administrative divisions: GADM, November 2015b; in- cident data: ACLED, 20 June 2020; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 SYRIA, FOURTH QUARTER 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 2020 Contents Conflict incidents by category Number of Number of reported fatalities 1 Number of Number of Category incidents with at incidents fatalities Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality 1 least one fatality Explosions / Remote Conflict incidents by category 2 3058 397 1256 violence Development of conflict incidents from December 2017 to December 2019 2 Battles 1023 414 2211 Strategic developments 528 6 10 Methodology 3 Violence against civilians 327 210 305 Conflict incidents per province 4 Protests 169 1 9 Riots 8 1 1 Localization of conflict incidents 4 Total 5113 1029 3792 Disclaimer 8 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 20 June 2020). Development of conflict incidents from December 2017 to December 2019 This graph is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 20 June 2020). 2 SYRIA, FOURTH QUARTER 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 2020 Methodology GADM. Incidents that could not be located are ignored. The numbers included in this overview might therefore differ from the original ACLED data. ACLED uses The data used in this report was collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event varying degrees of geographic precision for the individual incidents, depending Data Project (ACLED). ACLED collects data on reported conflict events in selected on what level of detail is reported. Thus, towns may represent the wider region in African and Asian countries, Syria being among them. ACLED researchers collect which an incident occured, or the provincial capital may be used if only the province event data from a variety of sources and code them by date, location, agent, and is known. Erroneous location data, especially due to identical place names, cannot event type. be fully excluded. Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, Incidents comprise the following categories: battles, headquarters or bases es- secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatality tablished, non-violent strategic activities, riots/protests, violence against civilians, data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED states non-violent transfer of territory, remote violence. For details on these categories, to use the most conservative estimate available. ACLED uses the reports’ context please see to estimate fatalities for events with reported fatalities for which the exact number is unknown (“10” for plural fatalities, “100” if “hundreds” are mentioned, etc.). • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict For further details on ACLED and for the full data, see www.acleddata.com and Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) Codebook (2019), 10 April 2019 Raleigh; Linke; Hegre, and Karlsen, 2010. https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/10/ ACLED_Codebook_2019FINAL_pbl.pdf Based on this data, the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD) compiles updates on conflict incidents and pub- • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict lishes them on ecoi.net to offer another access point to the ACLED datasets. Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) User Quick Guide, April 2019 https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2019/04/ It is advised to employ extreme caution when using fatality numbers. General-User-Guide_FINAL.pdf Assessments of the security situation should not be based solely on quantitative • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: FAQs: ACLED Fatality analysis of event data. Methodology, 27 January 2020 https://www.acleddata.com/download/17979/ Please see ACLED’s additional methodological paper for Syria: ACLED, 16 April 2019 Geographic map data is primarily based on GADM, complemented with other sources if necessary. Incidents are mapped to GADM provinces using the provinces in ACLED data. Province names and borders may differ between ACLED and 3 SYRIA, FOURTH QUARTER 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 2020 Conflict incidents per province are taken from GADM data which serves as the basis for the maps above. Number of In Al Hasakah, 802 incidents killing 710 people were reported. The following Number of Number of Province incidents with locations were among the affected: Aba Kabirah, Abbaa, Abu Rasin, Abu incidents fatalities fatalities Rusayn, Ain Diwar, Al Asadiyah, Al Jawadiyah, Al-Ahras, Al-Amirat, Al Hasakah 802 157 710 Al-Arbain, Al-Dahma, Al-Hasakeh, Al-Hasakeh - Al Mufti, Al-Hasakeh - Al Aleppo 765 120 353 Rusafa, Al-Hasakeh - Al-Aziziyeh, Al-Hasakeh - Ghoweran, Al-Hasakeh - Msheirfeh, Al-Kasra, Al-Maabdaa, Al-Majou, Al-Malha, Al-Malikeyyeh, Ar Raqqah 388 117 571 Al-Nasriyah, Al-Silmasa, Al-Yarubiyah, Al-Zehiriyeh, Alia, Aluk Sharkiya, As Suwayda’ 13 10 11 Aluq al Gharbiyah, Amiriyeh, Amuda, Aniq El Hawa, Areesheh, Arshet Ras El Damascus 12 7 7 Ein, As-Safeh, Asfar Najar, Atamiye, Aziziyeh, Bab al Faraj, Bab al Kheir, Dar‘a 160 80 106 Ballujah, Bir Nuh, Bir Qadim, Daghaim Ajaj, Daoudiyeh, Darbasiyah, Dayr Az Zawr 253 103 212 Dardara, Dashishah, Dwerah, Faysaliyya, Ghabashiah, Hab Hawa, Hamu, Haylah, Hliwah, Hole, Hole Camp, Humaydiah, Jabal Abdulaziz, Jan Tamr, Hamah 519 54 207 Jan Tamr Gharbi, Jaroudiyah, Jattal, Java, Kashqa, Kashto, Khanik, Kharab Hims 20 11 88 Rashak, Kherbit Al khadra, Khirbat Al-Naimah, Khirbet Hammoud, Khrbit Idlib 1909 286 1165 Al-Banat, Khweitleh Hmud, Kozliyeh, Leylan, Mabrouka, Mabrouka Camp, Lattakia 169 41 276 Madhba’a, Maghloje, Mahmudiyeh, Malha, Manajir, Markada, Mashrafah, Quneitra 3 1 1 Matalla, Mjeibreh, Modan, Mubarakiyeh, Muraykiz, Nefkur, Qabr al Sheikh Hassan, Qahtaniyyah, Qasemiyeh, Qasr Eldib, Qotniyeh, Quamishli, Rif Dimashq 99 42 85 Quamishli Airbase, Quraish, Ras Al Ain, Rashidiyeh, Rashidiyeh Derbasiyeh, Tartus 1 0 0 Rawya, Rihaniya, Rihaniyet Shamr, Rmelan, Safa, Salam, Salhiyeh, Semalka Border Crossing, Shadadah, Shakariyah, Shakhat, Shamo, Shara, Soda, Tal Al-Laban, Tal Arqam, Tal Baydar, Tal Baydar Haskeh, Tal Brak, Tal Hmis, Tal Localization of conflict incidents Jammeh, Tal Jihan, Tal Khanzir, Tal Mohammad, Tal Shayr, Tal Tamer, Tal al Janab, Tall Diyab, Tall Tawil, Tall Ward Sharqi, Tawileh, Tell Halaf, Tell Qartal, Note: The following list is an overview of the incident data included in the ACLED Thahr El Arab, Um Al Safir, Um Harmala, Um Shu’ayfah, Umm Al-Kayf, Umm dataset. More details are available in the actual dataset (date, location data, event Al-Khair, Umm Ashba, Umm al Asafir, Western Abdel Salam, Western Alouk, type, involved actors, information sources, etc.). The data’s precision varies among Ya’robiyah, Zaydiyeh Ras El Ein. the incidents: a town may represent a region, or the provincial capital may be used if the precise location of an incident is unkown. In the following list, the names In Aleppo, 765 incidents killing 353 people were reported. The following of event locations are taken from ACLED, while the administrative region names locations were among the affected: A’rima, Abad, Afrin, Aghtrin, Ain al Arab, 4 SYRIA, FOURTH QUARTER 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 23 JUNE 2020 Ain al Arab Air Base, Al Bab, Al Harishah, Al Hussyah, Al Rafai, Al Salameh, Yalishli, Zarbah, Zayadiyeh, Zeitan, Zmar, Zur Maghar. Al Salloum, Al Ziyarah, Al-Alqamiyyeh, Al-Baylonah, Al-Bohouth al-Elmia, Al-Eis, Al-Harsh, Al-Malikeyyeh, Al-Mallah, Al-Rashdeen, Al-Wasita, Aleppo, In Ar Raqqah, 388 incidents killing 571 people were reported. The following Aleppo - Al-Ashrafiyya, Aleppo - Al-Khaldiya, Aleppo - Al-Layramoun, locations were among the affected: 93rd Brigade Army Base, Abdi Koy, Abu Aleppo - Al-Nile, Aleppo - Al-Zahraa, Aleppo - Bustan al-Zahra, Aleppo - Khurayza, Abu Serra, Akeirshi, Al Hishah, Al Masaudiyah, Al Mushayrfah, Al City Hall, Aleppo - Halab Al-Jadida, Aleppo - Hamadaniyeh, Aleppo - Saif Tabqa, Al-Asadiyah, Al-Hurriyeh, Al-Khalidiyah, Al-Manqala, Al-Rasafah, al-Dawla, Aleppo - Shahabaa, Aleppo - Syriac Quarter, Aleppo - Tal Al-Tabqa Dam, Ali Bajliyah, Ar-Raqqa, Ar-Raqqa - Al-Thawrah, Ar-Raqqa - Al-Zarazir, Aleppo - Tishreen, Andan, Anjara, Aqibah, Ar-Ra’ee, Arab Amin, Ar-Raqqa - Tas-Heeh, Ar-Raqqa - Tishrine, Arida Abu Jarada, Hassan Kabeer, Arab Hassan Saghir, Arab Ushaghi, Aranda, Ashmah, Assadiya, Badi, Bajliya, Bir Asheq, Bir Atwan, Bir Issa, Bir Tamah, Dik, Ein Atareb, Azaz, Aziziyeh, Bab Al Salameh, Babis, Baghdak, Banes, Barad, Al-Arus, Ein Issa, Farhaniya, Fatsa, Hammam al Turkman, Hoshan, Hweijet al Basuta, Baza’a, Big Othmaniya, Boban, Bulbul, Burj Al-Qas, Buwaybiyah, Abd, Jahjah, Judayda, Jurn Aswad, Jurneyyeh, Kafifeh, Karama, Khafat Byanun, Dadat, Daghelbash, Dandaniya, Daret Azza, Deir Jamal, Deir Salem, Khafeiyeh, Khafiyah, Kherbet Elroz, Kherbit Faris, Khirbet al Fares,